A number of people will go to enormous lengths to be noticeable in a crowd, which has seen the rise of some severe techniques of body modifications in recent times. Long gone are the days of simple tattooing or body piercings, these days there are numerous ways to modify the body in a manner that will make it only one of its kind.
One of the most popular kinds of body modification at the moment is “branding”. In the vein of the branding practice seen on cattle ranches there is actually a human parallel. A comparable process is used with a hot iron which scalds the skin and leaves behind a decorative mark.
Next up is the body modification known as the sub-dermal implant. This kind of body modification necessitates the placing a shaped piece of jewelry beneath the surface of the skin giving it a 3-D kind of appearance. As soon as the shape has been placed under the skin the body heals them over permitting for a raised outline to appear. Most of these implants are placed into arms whilst other people have decided on stars in their back or chest.
A fad that has to taken off across the globe is earlobe stretching which entails a piercing in the ear lobe that slowly but surely will be substituted by a bigger piercing, meaning that the hole in the ear is stretched. This is also described as a flesh tunnel and it is understood that this body modification was motivated by women from tribes in Africa who enlarge their earlobes due to their culture. The halting point is said to be half an inch and this is the moment where the body will still be able to heal and seal the hole any more than that and the damage will be permanent.
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